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  • Fostering dialogue in divisive times – A guide for museums regarding engagement with community forums on climate action

    ‘Fostering dialogue in divisive times – A guide for museums regarding engagement with community forums on climate action’, published by the NEMO Working Group Sustainability and Climate Action and authored by Giulia Valentina Paglia, provides museums with practical tools to organise and facilitate inclusive, structured forums that encourage participation, informed debate, and collective problem-solving. This resource highlights the evolving role of museums as key facilitators of public discourse and community engagement. While primarily focused on climate action, the guide can be adapted to address a wide range of societal issues.

    Heritage-Based Climate Action

    This report presents key insights from the Net Zero: Heritage for Climate Action project, launched by ICCROM in January 2022 with support from the Swedish Postcode Foundation. Developed under ICCROM’s First Aid and Resilience (FAR) programme, the project explored how cultural heritage can contribute to climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The report highlights the growing risks climate change poses to cultural and natural heritage—from rising sea levels and extreme weather to biodiversity loss. It underscores the role of Indigenous and traditional knowledge in fostering sustainable environmental management and calls

    Amsterdam Kunstenplan 2025-2028

    The Arts Plan 2025-2028 outlines Amsterdam’s dedication to enhancing its cultural infrastructure, focusing on inclusivity, accessibility, and talent development. The city is committed to expanding cultural offerings, supporting emerging artists, and ensuring diverse representation and inclusion across all sectors. The Plan prioritises cultural heritage by supporting the National Slavery Museum and recognising guest workers through a proposed monument. It promotes inclusive public art reflecting the city’s diversity and aims to enhance collaboration with cultural institutions to deepen understanding of Amsterdam’s historical narratives.

    Holistic Heritage Podcasts: Spotlight on Europe’s cultural heritage ‘Oscar’

    In this podcast of the Holistic Heritage series, the Kraków Heritage Hub’s John Beauchamp is in Bucharest for the 2024 European Cultural Heritage Summit, where he takes a closer look at the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards. Since 2002, the awards have championed the best cultural heritage initiatives from across Europe, with a total of just under 4,000 entries from as many as 46 countries. Why is the award so popular? And for all the programmes which have been awarded, what has the impact been of the award?

    Eureka3D Good practices for the 3D digitisation of cultural heritage

    EUreka3D is the acronym for European Union’s REKonstructed content in 3D, a project co‑funded by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union. This publication is the final booklet of the project. It mainly focuses on the methodology for 3D digitisation, the EUreka3D Data Hub, the project’s impact and sustainability, and the project’s four use cases. The EUreka3D project engaged the partners of the EU‑funded project together with a wider group of cultural heritage institutions in a range of piloting actions that delivered: 1. The set‑up of the EUreka3D Data

    LGBTQIA+ inclusion in European museums

    In this guideline, the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) addresses the critical issue of ensuring that all communities feel welcome in the museum by implementing LGBTQIA+ inclusive policies in museums. Building on insights gathered from museum professionals across Europe, NEMO aims to support institutions in becoming more inclusive spaces for everyone. This report serves as a guide for museum professionals looking to integrate LGBTQIA+ inclusivity into their operations and programming. It also presents potential scenarios that highlight common challenges museums may encounter when implementing such policies. These scenarios provide

    Twin it! Call to action: Boosting 3D for Europe’s culture by 2030

    Enhancing access to Europe’s shared cultural heritage for everyone to enjoy and be inspired by is a major EU policy goal. From increasing access to culture and improving engagement, to supporting preservation and fostering reuse, 3D offers unprecedented opportunities to advance this objective. 3D models are not just digital copies of heritage assets. They capture intricate details about the object and its story, as well as the digital documentation process, offering new knowledge and fresh insights. In 2019, EU Member States acknowledged the potential of 3D for digital preservation that

    State of Culture

    State of Culture is an outcome of a non-academic policy research initiative exploring how culture’s role and value are framed in national and European cultural policies. State of Culture also gathers insights from key stakeholders across the cultural and creative sectors on the major challenges and opportunities they face in the present world. The report explores new pathways for positioning the cultural sector in response to the evolving social and political landscape by offering a deeper understanding of the current state of culture. It raises critical questions about the role

    Connected journeys: Holistic audience measurement in the age of digital

    This paper is written by the NEMO Working Group on Digital Transformation. It focuses inititally on the integrated online-offline audience measurement approach. It also lists eight sparkling cases of museums from different EU countries that are implementing and using an integrated measurement approach in order to evaluate projects undertaken and better understand their audiences. This includes understanding what drives individuals to engage online and how an online presence can (or does not) interfere with in-person visits. To inspire further innovation in the museum sector, the paper contains information about new

    Culture, Health and Well-being

    Culture Action Europe (CAE) has developed a position paper on the intersection of culture, health, and well-being, offering key insights and policy recommendations. This paper builds on the CultureForHealth Report, further refining strategies to strengthen collaboration between the cultural and health sectors at the policy level. The paper highlights the growing evidence that cultural participation—whether active or as an audience—positively impacts individual and societal well-being. It emphasises the need to move beyond short-term initiatives towards systematic, long-term cooperation between cultural and health institutions. With the EU Work Plan for Culture

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